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rufus_foreman
on May 27, 2023
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Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point
California has the highest poverty level of any state in the US under the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
RhodesianHunter
on May 27, 2023
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If you don't understand per-capita and why raw sums are meaningless in context of the most populous state then I don't know what to tell you.
rufus_foreman
on May 27, 2023
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The numbers are a percentage of people in poverty by state.
RhodesianHunter
on May 28, 2023
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Read page 32 of your own document.
rufus_foreman
on May 28, 2023
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Where it says "Number and Percentage of People in Poverty by State"?
RhodesianHunter
on May 29, 2023
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And where it shows California at 11%, fairly low on the list
rufus_foreman
on May 29, 2023
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11% is not the number for the Supplemental Poverty Measure. The percentage for the Supplemental Poverty Measure is under the heading SPM. It's 15.4% for California, which is the highest of any state. D.C. is at 16.5%, but D.C. is not a state.
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